90/100 PP
"The 1999 Sociando-Mallet is an unusually structured, extracted wine in this generally rather forward vintage. Offering up aromas of cassis, cherries and loamy soil, framed b...
"F.X. Pichler is the Château Latour, Domaine de la Romanée Conti, Zind-Humbrecht, Sandrone and Helen Turley of the Wachau"
(Robert M. Parker, Jr.)
94/100 vinous
"The 1999 Monte Bello is gorgeous wine for current drinking, as all the elements have melded together nicely with the passage of time. Cedar, smoke, leather and dried her...
92/100 PP
"From a vintage that flies under the radar, the 1999 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Reserve is a beauty that’s drinking at point today. Pepper, garrigue, saddle leather and spice all s...
95/100 PP
"The 1999 Pavie is a candidate for "wine of the vintage". It boasts an opaque ruby/purple color in addition to gorgeous aromas of crushed minerals, smoke, licorice, cherry li...
93/100 PP
"The beautiful 1999 Mouton Rothschild may be a modern day clone of their 1962 or 1985. Its saturated ruby/purple color is followed by sumptuous aromas of cedar wood, creme de cass...
95/100 PP
"Rivetti's blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Nebbiolo, the 1999 Pin Monferrarto Rosso, is an exotic, ripe, luxuriously intense effort displaying extravagant flavors that border on e...
92/100 PP
"From a vintage that flies under the radar, the 1999 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Reserve is a beauty that´s drinking at point today. Pepper, garrigue, saddle leather and spice all s...